宗族、信仰与老年人状况 ———湘南宗族性村落老年人调查

湘南宗族性村落因为传统的宗族观念和宗族认同还比较强烈,老年人作为传统的纽带和象征仍然受到普遍的尊重,社会地位、威望较高,物质生活和精神寄托相对充裕。但同时,宗族内部的生死观念、信仰、理念及与此相关的村落伦理却又排斥部分老年人,致使他们处于村落社会的最底层,过着卑微、孤楚的生活。

Patriarchal Clan, Belief and the Condition of the Elderly——A Survey of the Patriarchal Villages' Elderly Southern Hunan

Because the traditional ancestral idea and the clansman association are still strong,elderly still receive respect in their role as traditional link and the symbol.Their social position and prestige are high,and their material life and spiritual life are still relatively rich.But at the same time,the patriarchal clan's internal life and death perception,belief,idea and the village ethical concepts run against the same group of senior people,plunging them at the bottom of the village society and giving them a humble and lonely life.